A couple of weeks ago I was helping a client move to new servers within their vSphereenvironment while also doing an upgrade of their VMware products. While this can be a really smooth transition, there are always things you need to consider if you don’t want to shut down your VMs for a maintenance period. To read more…
VMware’s Horizon Application Manager 1.5 provides IT administrators with a way to give end users a sort of company app store that allows single sign on for many applications. The solution delivers applications to your end users’ devices using ThinApps. To read more click here.
For the past few days I’ve been working on installing vSphere 5.1 on some Cisco UCS C-Series servers. This was a fresh install in a brand new environment, so I didn’t have to worry much about interrupting current production as I’d just set up the servers (Cisco UCS C220 M3), storage (EMC VNXe 3150), and software (vSphere 5.1)…
A few months ago I received an email regarding a blog I wrote about upgrading VMware vSphere. In short, I was asked some questions about how to approach an upgrade of vSphere in a relatively small environment. This admin was concerned about posting to the VMware forums because she felt she might be chastised for…
EMC’s VNXe product line of storage arrays is geared toward the SMB. The VNXe series is “storage made simple.” It is capable of most of the things that smaller shops need in shared storage without breaking the bank or requiring hours of training on storage. EMC created this product line to make the connections between VMware (and other hypervisors)…
I gave a presentation at my local VMUG meeting recently on the new features of the Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS) that comes with vSphere 5.1. I thought I’d share some of those in this blog, along with a video on one of the coolest new features, roll back. To read more click here.
Recently I was working with a company on their VMware View 4.6 environment. They had been testing it for several months, but always experienced some issues. They added some more pools and a couple hosts (ESXi 5.0 servers) and the issues seemed to get worse. Of course all the errors were intermittent and so it…
had the pleasure of attending VMware’s VMworld conference this past week in San Francisco and sat in on several sessions. One of my favorites was called Troubleshooting Using vCenter Operations Manager, given by Kit Colbert and Praveen Kannan. They did a live lab in the session that turned out really well and showed how useful vCenter…
I’ve been playing around with different ways of implementing FTP lately–that is, whether to use Windows, Linux, or just some sort of storage device with built-in FTP capabilities. I spent a bit of time creating an Ubuntu 12.04 FTP server and thought I’d share that experience in this post. As mentioned before, I’ll be going…
I had a couple Zenoss VMware appliances that run Linux that needed to have more space allocated to them. I knew just adding another hard drive wouldn’t solve the issue so I set about finding the least intrusive way to do this and not break the whole VM appliance. If you’ve ever used Zenoss, you know the…